BAT Junior Dancing Pencils Writing Club

The BAT Junior Dancing Pencils Writing Club is a private club run on a Saturday morning at the BAT Centre by Ms Veena Gangaram. The talent that this mentor unearths and nurtures is amazing. After having stories in anthologies, young writers get urged to write their own individual books. These are as unique as the young authors.

Some of the children with their books were at this year’s 2012 Cape Town Boof Fair. Sonal and Yuvadiya who are twins, live in QwaQwa in the Free State but travelled to Durban to be nurtured by Veena Gangaram. They were featured in a Cape Town newspaper in June. Kereena Bhana was also in Cape Town.

These children were present at the Dancing Pencils Book launch on Sunday 2nd December, as was Katherine Dunn (Young lady in striped shirt) and Joseanne Capelo (tall young lady) with her amazing second novel called Heroes Never Look Back

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The story highlights changes in a child's life from having the opportunity to learn to write stories and to read. The child starts out as an orphan in a squatter camp, and finishes up as a bright little girl with her own book launch and published story. It aims at getting funding in our NPO to enable the NPO to help with literacy by training children to write stories, publishing them and then giving books to disadvantaged children and so encouraging reading of child written books. This helps with literacy as children will read what children write.. The little orphan is the daughter of Bonga Zondo, who was the cameraman and editor. The teacher is Bonga's wife. The script was written by Felicity Keats who is also a right brain trainer and a niche publisher. the voice is Detlev Diegel, also a colleague.

Scenes at some of the Dancing Pencil book launches

Grade 3 Learners in five districts in the Free State, South Africa write books in five different home languages.